People from all across the Midwest will celebrate International Day of Climate Action Saturday at what they call “Chicago’s dirty secret” – Fisk Coal-fired Power Station in Pilsen.
The rally is one of more than 3,250 events in over 150 countries organized to urge President Obama and other world leaders press for a fair, ambitious and binding global climate deal in Copenhagen this December at the UN Climate Change Conference.
CCA organizers are calling on Nobel Peace Prize winning President Obama to seize this “opportunity” to lead the world toward a solution to the climate crisis that is based on the latest science, not the demands of oil and coal companies and their backers in Congress, according to a news release issued by Nicole Granacki, of Greenpeace in Chicago.
Event planners are expecting hundreds of people to rally and march outside the Fisk Coal-Fired Power station, one of Chicago's biggest global warming polluters now facing a suit by the EPA for violating the Clean Air Act.
“ It stands as an iconic representation of dirty energy’s disregard for community well being. Chicagoans will rally outside this example of all that is irresponsible and inefficient with American energy production…”,Granacki said in the release.
More than 25 Chicago organizations are aprtnerong in the rally, with numbers growing daily, organizers say. Demonstrators will display 15 mock wind turbines, the Rolling Sunlight – a solar paneled truck to power equipment at the event, solar panel displays, energy election ballot boxes, and giant posters with the Faces of Climate Change.
Marchers will assemble at 1111 W. Cermak, near Dvorak Park in Pilsen at 1 p.m. Saturday. Oct. 24.
Speakers will include:
Phil Radford, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA
Ald. Joe Moore, 49th Ward, Chicago
Myra Galvan, Youth Organizer, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO)
Martha Castellon, Little Village resident, mother of 2 young children
Moises Moreno, Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization (PERRO)
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